<p>Now that the forms are online/mailed, it is up to the Class of 2012 to fill them out. I know that I find this is slightly intimidating, to include enough information to accurately portray who I am and how I want to live for the next year...</p>
<p>Anyone have any tips as to how to get the best housing (coed, all frosh is my personal choice) and what to include on the form to help them pick the best roommate for me?</p>
<p>Just a tip, none of the "more desirable" dorms (the physical dorm, not thecommunity) on campus are all frosh - you will be in either Stern, Wilbur, or Branner if you go choose all frosh. This is not to say, however, that all the 4 class dorms are better dorms. As it's true for all Stanford housing issues, it's really just a gamble.</p>
<p>If all frosh is your first choice just put it rank 1 on the list, there's nothing else to be done than that.</p>
<p>I hear Branner has the nicest dorms on campus. Almost hotel-like I had heard.</p>
<p>My daughter put down that she likes to stay up late in order to avoid having an athelete roommate and it worked. Atheletes are nice, but make lousy roommates because they spend all of their time working out and bond with their teams instead of their dormmates. She also put she was sort of neat which is a lie. She got two slob roommates in Branner and their room kind of a disaster zone. But she's happy.</p>
<p>i thought wilbur wasn't all frosh.</p>
<p>Stern is 4-class except for Burbank which is all frosh
Wilbur is 4 class except Arroyo which is no frosh.
Here's a good site about dorms in the draw:
ASSU</a> Draw Guide</p>
<p>rinc in wilbur is all frosh</p>
<p>oh my gosh, why are all the dorm rooms so messy? Is this for real or done
on purpose? no one is cleaning up the rooms!!!</p>
<p>I'm really scared now after looking through the guide!!</p>
<p>Branner is the most envied all-frosh dorm on campus, and the building is really beautiful and everything (marble bathroom stalls!). But I really wouldn't choose my housing type based on the physical characteristics of the dorm. I lived in Stern my freshman year, and I loved it. I didn't pay any attention to the fact that I lived in a lowly, 192 sq. ft. 1-room double. Really, all the dorms are reasonably nice dorms, and the rooms are better than the ones I've seen at most other schools.</p>
<p>I posted this last year, but here it is again: A summary of which dorms are all-frosh and which are 4-class. There's nothing you can do about which one you get besides putting down your preferences on the form.</p>
<p>WILBUR
Cedro, Junipero (J-Ro), Otero, and Rinc are all frosh.
Okada (Asian ethnic theme) and Soto are 4-class.
Arroyo (Symbolic Systems focus) is upperclass.
Trancos was 4-class in the past, but will be upperclass this year.
Almost all rooms in Wilbur are one-room doubles (there are maybe 3 or 4 singles for frosh in the entire complex). Wilbur is on East Campus.</p>
<p>STERN
Larkin, Donner, and Burbank are all-frosh.
Zapata (Hispanic theme), Serra, and Twain are 4-class.
Upperclassmen in Serra and Zapata will have singles for fall quarter only; thus a bunch of new upperclassmen will move into these dorms at the beginning of winter quarter.
All Stern rooms are one-room doubles, AFAIK. Stern is on East Campus, slightly closer to the center than Wilbur.</p>
<p>BRANNER is all frosh.
Almost all rooms in Branner are two-room triples, laid out as a living room and a bedroom. There are one or two one-room doubles. Branner is on East Campus across the street from Wilbur and Stern. It has a reputation for being one of the most social dorms on campus.</p>
<p>FLORENCE MOORE (FLOMO)
Alondra is all-frosh. Half of Alondra residents are SLE students.
Cardenal and Faisan are 4-class. All frosh in these dorms are SLE students. All SLE students live in either Alondra, Cardenal, or Faisan.
Gavilan and Paloma are all frosh.
Loro and Mirlo are 4-class.
Almost all FloMo rooms are one-room doubles. FloMo is located in South Campus, across the street from Tresidder. It is very centrally located and is also close to the Row, where a lot of parties happen. However, it is on top of a hill, which makes biking home a bit of a pain if you live there. There is also a bit of a social stigma attached to being in SLE.</p>
<p>ROBLE is 4-class.
Frosh in Roble get 3-room quads, set up as two bedrooms and a living room. Roble is located on West Campus. It is the most centrally located of all the West Campus dorms. It is also the largest dorm on campus at ~300 students. Roble residents go next door to Lag for meals (don't worry, it's really close).</p>
<p>LAGUNITA
Ujaama ("Uj") is the African American theme house. It is 4-class.
Naranja, Granada, Adelfa, and Eucalipto are all 4-class.
In the Lag dorms, with the exception of Uj, frosh get very small one-room doubles. For this reason, they are the least desirable dorms for frosh to live in.
Lag is located on West Campus next to Roble.</p>
<p>FROSOCO
Your packets probably describe FroSoCo in detail, so I won't. It is all frosh and sophomores, naturally--the only dorm with that setup. Some frosh get two-room doubles (usually set up as one room for each person), but some get one-room doubles. FroSoCo on West Campus at the very end of Santa Teresa Street; it is the farthest dorm from the center of campus.</p>
<p>Just a few questions, would you advise freshman to live in an all freshman dorm, (thus indicating both frosh coed and frosh single sex first and second respectively) or would a four-class dorm be superior? Also, if one is selected to live in an all freshman dorm, what are the chances one will be assigned to Branner? Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, I would advise living in all-frosh. Those dorms tend to be more social and have a stronger sense of community (though there are always some four-class dorms that have the social environment of all-frosh).</p>
<p>About 10% of the freshman class lives in Branner, and that's the only solid number I can give you. The actual odds of being placed there if you request all-frosh depend on what percentage of the class lives in all-frosh dorms (which I don't know offhand, but I'm pretty sure it's more than half), and what percentage of the class requests them. So somewhere between 10% and 20%, certainly.</p>
<p>My son wanted all-frosh dorm but was assigned a 4-class dorm in flomo.
He ended up with really good friends from his class as well as upperclassmen. The upperclass kids really had lots of advice to give and helped guide the freshmen. Any way it turns out you'll love it at stanford!</p>
<p>what about frosh single sex? how popular are they? are they considered weird?</p>
<p>omg the rooms look so cramped!!</p>
<p>Dew: Keep in mind that the dorms are not single-sex; it's the floors. Many of the Wilbur dorms, for example, will have one floor of all men, one floor of all women, and one co-ed floor. Living on a single-sex floor is not weird at all. I've done so twice. All the dorms are roughly gender-balanced overall, with one exception. Otero (in Wilbur, where I lived freshman year) has all girls on the first and third floors, and all guys on the second floor, so it's almost 2/3 women.</p>
<p>perpetualmotion: Are you looking at a Lag double? Those are cramped. The Wilbur and Stern rooms actually aren't bad at all. Some of the FloMo rooms are a bit small (based on the little that I've seen), and Branner triples don't get a lot of open floor space. Roble quads, if I remember correctly, have a slightly cramped living room (since four people share it) and bigger bedrooms. There's a pretty good chance you'll be living in a reasonably spacious room.</p>
<p>Also, slight correction to my first post: Casa Zapata upperclassmen will have doubles all year, so there won't be an influx of new residents in the winter like Sera will have.</p>
<p>"Living on a single-sex floor is not weird at all." That's great news, especially if one doesn't get coed frosh. Thanks!</p>
<p>And for those who might be wondering, I've also lived on a coed floor (in Toyon, an all-sophomore dorm), and that wasn't weird either.</p>
<p>As I recall, I requested coed floors when I first came, because I was worried that if I lived in a dorm with gender-segregated floors, I would always feel strange hanging out on the girls' floor. That turned out not to be true.</p>
<p>Do you know if Branner is single-gender by floor?</p>